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Meet the World

This blog is about maps, not flags... but since I have digressed in that direction in the past, I will share this clever work.

The flags campaign, "Meet the World", is the work of Icaro Doria, a Brazilian working for the "hard journalism" magazine, Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal. Two examples:





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Icaro Doria said:

This is how we thought of the concept Meet the World.

We started to research relevant, global, and current facts and, thus, came up with the idea to put new meanings to the colours of the flags. We used real data taken from the websites of Amnesty International and the UNO.